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The Business Benefits of Federated
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Search Solutions 2007
23 May 2007
Andrew Maisey
Product Development Manager
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The Business Benefits of Federated
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1. The business benefits of federated searching
2. The business benefits of federated searching
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The Benefits of Search
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The Benefits of Search
“Understanding the hidden 80%”
http://www.autonomy.com
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The Benefits of Search
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The Benefits of Search
2003
• 4,000,000,000 pages
• 15,000 servers
2006 … estimated
• 20,000,000,000+ pages
• ? servers
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The Benefits of Search
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The Options for Search
Niche players; Hummingbird, Intelliseek, ISYS, Mercado
Software, Mondosoft, Thunderstone, ZyLAB…
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The Options for Search
Proprietary index
• Search syntax
Boolean, proximity, phrase, wildcards,
masking, ranges, NL…
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Content analysis
Summaries, categorisation, concepts
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Advanced UI
Browsing, drill down, taxonomies
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The Options for Search
Proprietary index
• Trained people
Support, maintain, optimise, 24*7*365
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Dedicated hardware
Infrastructure, systems administration
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Network
Bandwidth, access
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The Options for Search
Proprietary index features!
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Acquiring Content
Crawling and indexing
• Latency
• Integrations
• Subscription sites
• Timing
• Backups
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The Business Benefit?
Federated search
“The goal of federated searching is to enable
a user to search multiple independent,
discretely mounted, data sources or
databases through one search query.”
http://en.wikipedia.org
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Federated Search
What it does…
• Broadcast - anywhere
• Mimicking user behaviour
• Unified results
Reduced cost of ownership, deployment
and maintenance
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Federated Search
Does this without requiring
• Large licence costs
• Dedicated teams
• Dedicated hardware
• Changing existing
working practices
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The Business Benefits of Federated
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Business benefits
• Quick win access
• Maximises ROI and reuse
• Single sign on
• Content consolidation
• Frees internal resources
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The Business Benefits of Federated
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Quick wins
• Instant one stop search
• Save time searching
• Increase search depth
• Uncover hidden content
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The Business Benefits of Federated
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Maximise ROI and reuse
• One tool – many sources
• Connect to anything
• Improve content reuse
• Maximise existing ROI
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The Business Benefits of Federated
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Content consolidation
• Final or interim solution
• Save money, save time
• Easy to deploy
• No changes to working
practices
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The Business Benefits of Federated
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Single Sign On
• Source level authentication
• No changes
• No costs
• Controlled access to
subscription sites
• Auditing and charging
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The Business Benefits of Federated
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Frees internal resources
• Reduced application
development / support
• READ-only – done
• One corporate interface
• Reduced external costs
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The Business Benefits of Federated
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Lower costs – same benefits
• Licence
• Hardware
• System administration
• Implementation
• Training
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The Business Benefits of Federated
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Access more…now
Migrate when practical
Free up development teams
Single interface
Spend less
Access without latency
No proprietary index pitfalls
Avoid network issues
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The Business Benefits of Federated
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Search Solutions 2007
23 May 2007
Andrew Maisey
Product Development Manager
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